A/N: So I've decided to make a series of drabbles centering around my favorite X-Men Evolution couple second only to Kurt and Kitty, Wanda and Todd! All the drabbles are about the slow transition from a tentative friendship to a blooming love between teammates. It's going to be like a story but with less obligations for me, the author! Hooray! The length may range from 50-100 drabbles and I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: Wanda and Todd are the the property of whatever company owns the rights to X-Men Evolution, if I owned them I sure as hell wouldn't be writing fanfiction about the two because all of my fantasies would be so cannon it'd tear a hole in the space time continuum. Disclaimer over.

If you asked Wanda what Todd was to her the reply would be instantaneous, he was a pain in her ass. That's what he'd been the moment he spoke his first words to her and that hadn't changed one bit despite how much time had passed since their first meeting. Sure, he'd become more tolerable but when it came down to it he was still so much like himself and there was something entirely irritating about that. And sometimes, usually late at night when she couldn't sleep and found herself staring up at her ceiling with nothing else to do, she'd wonder why that was.

He was annoying, there was no doubt about that but was he more irritating than any other teenage boy she knew? Not really, and arguably he was one of the least aggravating boys she lived with. So why? Why could she just not stand him? She pushed her covers off herself with an annoyed grunt and stood up.

She hated how abnormally quiet it was when the rest of the house was asleep, not that she liked the ruckus of the house during the day, she hated that to. But at least she was used to it, the quiet though, that never happened, unless everyone was asleep, which they typically were at the ungodly hours she was up at.

And when they were up they certainly weren't home, they were out, doing things she never wanted to or did hear about since she was smart enough to guess most of it was illegal or vulgar and walked away when they began to trade idiotic stories with each other.

She looked around her darkened room contemplatively wondering what she was supposed to do since sleep was obviously not going to come to her anytime soon, finally she decided to go downstairs and raid the kitchen. If there was any food left in the kitchen that is.

She snuck past the bedrooms of the house's other occupants as quietly as possible since she wasn't in the mood to deal with any cranky, half-asleep boys and soon enough found herself in the kitchen searching for something that wasn't expired to eat. The best thing she could find was an almost empty jar of Peanut Butter and saltines which she absentmindedly began to eat as her mind wandered once again to Toad.

A while ago Wanda would have preferred to slam her head into a brick wall instead of thinking about the boy who showered almost never but lately he was making frequent appearances in her thoughts. She didn't know why that was just like she didn't know why he bothered her so much. She sighed and popped another peanut butter coated cracker into her mouth as she rested her chin on her fist. She really hated the silence sometimes.

"Hey sweetcheeks!" She rethinks her earlier view on silence.

"Toad." Her greeting is short and probably a little rude but his grin doesn't falter.

"What are you doing up?" Unlike the rest of the Brotherhood her glare wasn't enough to send him packing and so he pushed his luck with her patience often, very often.

"What are you doing up?"

"Couldn't sleep." He shrugged, taking a seat on the counter right by where her food is which makes her frown, she's sure his odor is going to contaminate her food somehow, and if his stink doesn't do the trick he hasn't bathed in a while either so she's sure one way or another she's going to get poisoned by him and all the germs that come with him.

"Congratulations, you've just answered the question you asked me."

"Oh." He stares down at his feet before looking back at her just as she turns her gaze towards the window. "Did you have a nightmare?"

"Even if I did why would I tell you?"

"Because...we're friends?" She actually looks at him for that comment and shock is written on her face clear as day before it's replaced by a mask of indifference and she turns her head away from him again.

"Not really." She contradicts him before she even knows she's doing it and she feels a little bit guilty when she sees his crestfallen face, she feels guilty enough that she holds out one of her crackers to him as a sort of apology.

He takes it and studies it for a moment before eating it and she slides the plate between them, indicating she's willing to keep sharing her food and they do so in silence for a while until Toad clears his throat and hops off the counter. "I came down to watch a little bit of television. Wanna join me?"

"No thanks." She shoots the offer down quickly before getting up herself and turning around to walk away.

"W-wait! There are still some crackers on your plate." It's his last-ditch attempt to get some more time alone with his favorite witch.

"You can have them." She waves her hand in a dismissive gesture like she doesn't know what he was really asking and that was that. Toad sat down on the seat Wanda had just been occupying feeling defeated but perked back up when he heard a very quiet goodnight from the black and red-haired girl before she began to speed walk away.

Wanda remembers why he aggravates her more than anyone else as she retreats to the safety of her room and she can feel his eyes on her back the whole way. It's because sometimes he seems to actually care and she knows it's better to just keep him at bay than to let him actually get anywhere and then push him away. It's better to just brush him off than to...well even the thought of what else she could do is ridiculous. But she still almost feels like smiling as she slips back into bed for the second time that night. Even if he did care about her and she, about him he'd still be a pain in her ass.

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